It seems that Bernstein's Enigma Variations is timed at 39 minutes and 7 seconds. If my maths is correct, the version on my Naxos CD with George Hurst and the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra takes 28 minutes and 59 seconds. Much of the furore at the time apparently centred on 'Nimrod'.
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Naah! That would be deemed by Radio 3 to exceed the audience's attention span. If it's longer than a 78 side length, forget it.Originally posted by Caliban View PostComment
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Eh? But it's a TV documentary an hour long.... rehearsals, interviews, music and film clips... what's the problem?Originally posted by Caliban View Post
You follow up with streams or purchases...there are some marvellous new releases as I've said above, and Baiba Skride's Serenade (much praised by DG in Collection, along with Hahn and Ferschtman) is due soon...
But if you actually buy just one then - forget the value-for-money this time (oh, I agonised, don't worry) and grab the Zimerman/Berlin Phil/Rattle Age of Anxiety...a one-in-a-million instant classic of the Gramophone (And you know it is, at the very first piano entry..
...)
You know the Lutosławski Piano Concerto from the same source, right? Course you do....
well,
it's even better than that...
(Snazzy artwork too
)
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I quite agree! Was simply responding to a previous email about the playlist for the programme!Originally posted by jayne lee wilson View Post"...the isle is full of noises,
Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."
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Ii's also been shown before and is actually a very good programme.Originally posted by Caliban View Post
JLW, the Zimerman/Rattle Age Of AnXiety has been on my radar for a while so looking forward to the purchase."The sound is the handwriting of the conductor" - Bernard HaitinkComment
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I have that very cd, the Lutoslawski! Yes!Originally posted by jayne lee wilson View PostEh? But it's a TV documentary an hour long.... rehearsals, interviews, music and film clips... what's the problem?
You follow up with streams or purchases...there are some marvellous new releases as I've said above, and Baiba Skride's Serenade (much praised by DG in Collection, along with Hahn and Ferschtman) is due soon...
But if you actually buy just one then - forget the value-for-money this time (oh, I agonised, don't worry) and grab the Zimerman/Berlin Phil/Rattle Age of Anxiety...a one-in-a-million instant classic of the Gramophone (And you know it is, at the very first piano entry.....)
You know the Lutosławski Piano Concerto from the same source, right? Course you do....
well,
it's even better than that...
(Snazzy artwork too)
https://www.qobuz.com/gb-en/album/be...jx9lnqacb#itemDon’t cry for me
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I had R3 on from approx 8.30 to 10 this morning. I wasn’t counting but by my rough reckoning I have heard the name “Bernstein” some 200+ times and exactly the same trail 3 times
Even Mrs Bax who, one might say, doesn’t have such a delicately tuned year to the vagaries of R3 has just shouted out “Enough already!”
Click. Off.O Wort, du Wort, das mir Fehlt!Comment
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There is definitely a Bernstein overkill going on. If I was given a pound for every Bernstein trailer I've recently witnessed on Radio 3, BBC2 and BBC4, I could almost take early retirement. I don't recall there being any comparable mania for the centenaries of Copland ... or even Mahler! I appreciate there is an airwaves and TV ratings war going on but the 'important' BBC people who sit around tables brainstorming and deciding how to fight it and how far to milk a campaign to death have a lot to answer for this time.Originally posted by Bax-of-Delights View PostComment
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But if you help to kill a composer by this kind of gratuitous carpet bombing, all you are likely to achieve is switch-off weariness and opprobrium, and NOT an everlasting desire to pursue that composer. It's R3 et al who suffer more than the figure being deified.Comment
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This criticism of Bernstein is just the sort of antisemitism that is prevelant in contemporary Britain. That and all the cultural appropriation of meat seasoning recipes makes me want to leave this sceptic isle.
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Yes I wondered that - I have the impression of seeing it or something similar before. They never put "R" for Repeat on the BBC4 site as most programmes there are aired several times, but they used to (or sometimes) put previous broadcast dates in the panel that says "On TV" - nothing in this instance, so I wondered if this was a new package (by definition, given the title, the various clips will have been on the BBC before). Then again, I should have learned by now not to treat the BBC website as definitive...Originally posted by Petrushka View Post
You remember clearly that this very programme has previously been on then, Pet?"...the isle is full of noises,
Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."
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Anti-semitism????????????????
It's NOT Bernstein we're talking about, but the carpet-bombing RADIO THREE / BBC coverage / promotion of him!Comment
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Yeah, ‘it’s not Iews we’re criticising, it’s Israel’ - I’ve heard it all before.Originally posted by DracoM View PostComment
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Oh, FGS............................Comment
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